Advice on how to increase your apartment by 1 room

There are several ways to increase the apartment without increasing the living space. The first method is more famous, but less effective - increase due to visual illusion. For example, paint the walls white, put mirrors.

The second method is less known and popular, it allows you to actually increase the apartment (without increasing meters) thanks to competent logistics. To understand by what method this is achieved, it is best to turn to archaic.

Content

1 The layout of the house in the village
2 The traditions of our society
3 Redevelopment
4 What to do with a gas stove

The layout of the house in the village

Main room: kitchen, dining room, bedroom, hall for receiving guests - the room usually has a traditional Russian stove.
The second room usually carries the load of the bedroom.
The third room may be absent, if it exists, it also carries the functionality of the bedroom.

On a note!

You need to pay close attention to the main room in the house. Why did she perform so many functions? For example, the presence of a Russian stove created additional sleeping (hidden) places, which made it possible to be a bedroom.

The oven also made it possible to perform the functions of a kitchen, an installed table, and added the functionality of a dining room for receiving guests. Naturally, now they do not install stoves in modern apartments, but one-room apartments are somehow not very smartly planned. Excluding national mentality and traditions.

The traditions of our society

If a neighbor came to the mistress of the house, let's discuss the series, then they usually sit at the table, drink tea, eat pastries for tea and discuss the series.
The owner of the house receives his colleague as a guest, settles down at the table, puts strong drinks and remembers his youth and how the service went.
In the case of a major holiday, a very popular holiday in Russia and the countries of the former USSR is the celebration of the New Year, a festive table is set! Traditionally on the table: Olivier salad, Soviet champagne, sandwiches with red caviar, other dishes depend on family tradition and family affluence.

It turns out that absolutely all the events associated with the reception of guests are somehow related to the feast! In a one-room apartment, there is only one room, usually a rather large and small kitchen. Because all the holidays are held in the bedroom (there are simply no other places in the apartment), which is not very convenient.

Redevelopment

Remedy of the apartment may be a redevelopment of the apartment. It should be noted that for some cases permission is required, while in others it is optional. If it is required to transfer the gas stove, then permission for such work is simply necessary.

If the house has an electric stove, then you can transfer it without permission. Regarding the installation of the washstand, it can also be moved without the permission of the administration. With such a transfer, damage or demolition of the bearing walls and structures is not required.

On a note!

If the apartment has a gas stove, then the work of transferring and collecting documents is a daunting task, but it will be cheaper than paying or buying a full two-room apartment.

After moving the stove and washstand into the hall, you can separate the cooking zone (conditional kitchen) with furniture.
If you use the room wisely and economically, put a kitchen corner, hang cupboards for dishes (such a set of furniture in the furniture store is called “kitchen”), then there will be enough space for a large table on which you can cook and for which you can receive guests.
A large table will allow you to put a sofa on one side of the table, if it is a sofa-book, then it can serve as a sleeping place (a hidden sleeping place is similar to a Russian stove, an assembled place for sitting, and in a laid out sleeping place), and there will also be a place for installing a computer desk and a computer. In a modern home, a computer often performs the additional function of a music system.

The description clearly shows, if we turn to archaic, it is quite realistic to increase the apartment by 1 room, not just visually, but quite real! Moreover, the increase in meters will not happen, but their use will be more logical.

The only thing that needs to be noted is that a similar increase in living space is possible in 2-3 or more room apartments.

On a note!

Naturally, if the house has a gas stove and the kitchen is relatively far from the hall, then it will be extremely difficult to get permission to redevelop. Then the most reasonable way is to completely abandon gas equipment.

What to do with a gas stove

Refuse gas equipment.
Install an electric hob or stove.
Pull the sewer into the hall to drain the water and pipes for supplying water to the sink.
Usually, if pipes pass through the next room (bedroom), they increase the floor and hide them under the floor. Such an extension makes the ceiling "lower" by 10 cm, as is usually the case when using stretch ceilings.

The relative inconvenience of such a solution can be considered increased electricity bills. If you calculate how much the rent will actually grow and figure out how many years it will take to save a similar amount in order to exchange a conditional 1-bedroom or 2-bedroom apartment for 3-bedroom or 4-bedroom apartments, it turns out that the amount is insignificant!

If we exclude the inflation factor, it will take from 50 to 100 years, depending on the region of residence. Because such a solution is economically feasible! You need to live here and now, and not in 50-100 years!